> Where on earth do you get the idea that Dr. Ralph sold out? This was not a
> kkk rally that he attended. It is
> a film, sir! If you make a film, someone plays the bad guy. And
> if the film
> is a musical, someone sings the part of the bad guy. You can't perform
> Hamlet unless someone plays the part of Iago. Do you think that means the
> actor who plays Iago sold out? That's ridiculous. The film was
> not pro kkk.
> It was very much otherwise. A kkk rally is one thing. A FILM is quite
> another, altogether.
>
> Dr. Ralph is an American treasure. He is the embodiment of generations who
> took little part in the larger world, but lived and died back in the hills
> of home, "far from the madding crowd," who saved their breath to swell in
> song, music they played and sang only for themselves. They sat on their
> back porches and sang and played for no other purpose than to
> express their
> joy in living, and, in hard times, to make life a little easier to bear.
> And we may be thankful that this music has survived, for there is an eerie
> beauty in it that can be heard nowhere else in the world today. It is the
> soaring spirit of the common man, who will not be vanquished and the very
> best of this is heard in the voice of Ralph Stanley.
>
> I, too, would have liked an interview. Letterman would have better spent
> his time interviewing this master of his craft than in interviewing a tv
> personality who spoke a lot of pathetic gibberish. We all would have loved
> to have heard the Clinch Mountain boys, but that may come later. The
> important thing is that Ralph Stanley's voice was made available to a lot
> of lucky people who have never had the opportunity to hear and be moved by
> it before.
>
> Kathleen
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